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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Purely
Cancer
Sake
Growth
Philosophy

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